Dean Nariman Farvardin announced to the Clark School's Board of Visitors on May 6 that the Clark School has raised more than $100 million of its $185 million Great Expectations campaign goal.

The Clark School is raising money for undergraduate scholarships and especially graduate student fellowships, new research programs, professorships and teaching programs, and new facilities. See the Great Expectationsweb site for a complete description of Clark School giving priorities.

The Clark School reached the $100 million milestone in March of this year, after less than three years of the seven allotted for the Great Expectations campaign. As of April 30, the school had raised a total of $108,681,321.

In its last campaign?"Bold Vision, Bright Future"?the Clark School raised $63 million, exceeding its goal, in seven years. Dean Farvardin noted that this achievement required 10,000 gifts, and that the same broad support would be required for the Great Expectations goal.

The dean recognized many of the recent gifts that made exceeding the milestone possible including:

The Barbara J. Dieter Scholarship Endowment in Mechanical Engineering and Women in Engineering

Support from the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation for nanoscale biochip research